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  • Aman

    The Story Of A Somali Girl

    This is the extraordinary first-person account of a young woman's coming of age in Somalia and her struggles against the obligations and strictures of family and society. By the time she is nine, Aman has undergone a ritual circumcision ceremony; at eleven, her innocent romance with a white boy leads to a murder; at thirteen she is given away in an arranged marriage to a stranger. Aman eventually ... Read more

    Was $21.99 CAD Now $7.99 CAD

  • Networks of Knowledge Production in Sudan

    Identities, Mobilities, and Technologies

    by Sondra Hale, Gada Kadoda, Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf, Alsarah, Janice Boddy, Sandra Calkins, Asha Elkarib, Asma I. Elsony, Anita Fabos0, Nancy Gallagher1, Katarzyna Grabska2, Ellen Gruenbaum3, Asma M. Abdel Halim4, Sara A. Hassanain5, Guma K. Komey6, Amina Alrasheed Nayel7, Margret Otto8, Richard Rottenburg9, Ulrike Schultz0, Pindai Sithole1, Atta El-Battahani2 ...
    This is the first book of its kind on Sudan, and arguably one of the first in North Africa. We are part of an emerging, more cosmopolitan approach that calls for a reassessment of ideas about not only the concept of identities, but also about migration and technology, especially social media. Our essayists engage in redefinitions, the broadening of our key variables, the linking and intersecting ... Read more

    $136.79 CAD

  • A Companion to the Anthropology of Religion

    Edited by Janice Boddy, Michael Lambek ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
    A Companion to the Anthropology of Religion presents a collection of original, ethnographically-informed essays that explore the variety of beliefs, practices, and religious experiences in the contemporary world and asks how to think about religion as a subject of anthropological inquiry.Presents a collection of original, ethnographically-informed essays exploring the wide variety of beliefs, ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

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    A Very Short Introduction

    by Steven Grosby ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This book examines the political and moral challenges that face the vast majority of human beings who consider themselves to be members of various nations. It explores nationality through the difficulties and conflicts that have arisen throughout history, and discusses nations and nationalism from social, philosophical, and anthropological perspectives. In this fascinating Very Short Introduction, ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • The Underground Girls of Kabul

    In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan

    by Jenny Nordberg ...
    An investigative journalist uncovers a hidden custom in Afghanistan that will transform your understanding of what it means to grow up as a girl.“An astonishingly clear picture of this resourceful, if imperfect, solution to the problem of girlhood in a society where women have few rights and overwhelming restrictions.”—The Boston GlobeIn Afghanistan, a culture ruled almost entirely by men, the ... Read more

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  • An Ethics for Today

    Finding Common Ground Between Philosophy and Religion

    by Richard Rorty, G. Elijah Dann ...
    One of the most widely discussed philosophers of the 21st century finds common ground between spiritual and secular ethics in this provocative book.As controversial and he was influential, Richard Rorty developed a brand of philosophical pragmatism that rejects all theories of truth. His groundbreaking work also dismisses modern epistemology and its preoccupation with knowledge and representation. ... Read more

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  • Princess More Tears to Cry

    by Jean Sasson ...
    Series Book 4 - Princess Series
    When Jean Sasson’s book Princess: Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia was published, it became an immediate international bestseller. It sold to 43 countries and spent 13 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list. Now, in this long-awaited, compelling new book, Sasson and the Princess ‘Sultana’ return to tell the world what it means to be a Saudi woman today.Through advances in education and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Religion: The Basics

    by Malory Nye ...
    Series series The Basics
    From the local to the global level, religion is – more than ever – an important and hotly debated part of modern life in the twenty-first century.From silver rings to ringtones and from clubs to headscarves, we often find the cultural role and discussion of religion in unexpected ways.Now in its second edition, Religion: The Basics remains the best introduction to religion and contemporary culture ... Read more

    $46.71 CAD

  • Gaddafi's Harem

    The Story of a Young Woman and the Abuses of Power in Libya

    by Annick Cojean ...
    Translated by Marjolijn de Jager ...
    This international bestseller is a "horrifying inside look at the lives of Libyan women under the Gaddafi regime . . . Powerful and compelling" ( Booklist, starred review).Soraya was just fifteen, a schoolgirl in the coastal town of Sirte, when she was given the honor of presenting a bouquet of flowers to Colonel Gaddafi, "the Guide," on a visit he was making to her school the following week. This ... Read more

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  • Ritual : Perspectives and Dimensions--Revised Edition

    Perspectives and Dimensions--Revised Edition

    by Catherine Bell ...
    From handshakes and toasts to chant and genuflection ritual pervades our social interactions and religious practices. Still few of us could identify all of our daily and festal ritual behaviors much less explain them to an outsider. Similarly because of the variety of activities that qualify as ritual and their many contradictory yet in many ways equally legitimate interpretations ritual seems to ... Read more

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  • Kids of Kabul: Living Bravely Through a Never-ending War

    Living Bravely Through a Never-ending War

    by Deborah Ellis ...
    Since its publication in 2000, hundreds of thousands of children all over the world have read and loved The Breadwinner. By reading the story of eleven-year-old Parvana and her struggles living under the terror of the Taliban, young readers came to know the plight of children in Afghanistan.But what has happened to Afghanistan's children since the fall of the Taliban in 2001? In 2011, Deborah ... Read more

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  • Formations of the Secular

    Christianity, Islam, Modernity

    by Talal Asad ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    Opening with the provocative query “what might an anthropology of the secular look like?” this book explores the concepts, practices, and political formations of secularism, with emphasis on the major historical shifts that have shaped secular sensibilities and attitudes in the modern West and the Middle East.Talal Asad proceeds to dismantle commonly held assumptions about the secular and the ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD